People like to use Win 10 and Mac because it's intuition. One size doesn't fit all. If you're looking for a job, you must have an engineering degree. A bit disclosure- major companies want to hire engineers with "extra" software/computer programming background. They're very desperate...

Well You know MS Windows dominate business world. First MS OS released like around 1985 while Linux released around 1991. Around that time, Linux was very difficult to use and lotta buggy with early 86 processor. So MS won.

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I was (and still am) thinking it was their own variant of CP/M but I can't come up with what it was called. We went to their Model IV before getting one of their IBM clones. I continued to use it for payroll even after we went to one of theirs that used DOS. That was because I could make my own changes when things like Social Security rates changed rather than have to have PeachTree send us a disk. I was also often having to enter new deductions for different union dues as we did jobs in different places.

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Bad thinking. People with Macs and Apple products thought that way once upon a time.... until they got hit with viruses. The reason why Macs and Linux flavor machines don't get hit as often is because the payload to the virus creator is a LOT less than if they targeted Windows.

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Bad thinking. People with Macs and Apple products thought that way once upon a time.... until they got hit with viruses. The reason why Macs and Linux flavor machines don't get hit as often is because the payload to the virus creator is a LOT less than if they targeted Windows.

Which is why my have ClamTK installed and scheduled for both scans and updates once daily. As well as often backups just in case something does make it way in. It also the ONLY fight ransomware should it takes haul on your machine.

I tried to use LinuxMint 19 with Xfc on old Purple Dell Mini 1010. It ran fine but not snappy. It can't play Netflix, Youtube is extremely laggy. It's all because of shXXy GMA500 chipset and Atom processor. I reverted back to Windows XP and planned to sell it for $10. It used to have Win 10 installed but it's slow going.

Reason why not many people using Linuxes? Because it's not a real "desktop". Although you can use it as Desktop but it have its weakness on one security issue, anyone can hack into Linux by create new login and access file unless you chose to "encrypt during installiation" which means that Linux encrypts everything during installation so it's locked only to you, it'll become unhackable to anyone.

It be super nice if Microsoft or Apple go under and Linux can reign LOL> Why I love Linux because I can run Live Linux OS of some kind that allows me to boot into desktop without Hdd, SSD or CDrom drive. If any old PC which is 2005 or newer can be used as emergency system without drives except Pendrive (Linux flashed thumb drive). This allows me to access website ect..

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There's a TON of Linux flavors floating around out there.. unlike MS and Apple, Linux is generally open source. I know there are some flavors of Linux that has as GUI interface to make it look like a Windows/Apple desktop (Puppy comes to mind- I used that one to get as many pictures off my sister's ASUS before the thing completely died.).

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There are a few here who do use Linux. Some threads in the technology sub forums too.

I don't as haven't really gotten into Linux; tend to stick with Windows as it's a little easier with programming applications. Soon to add a Mac laptop if I can find the funds for that and bootcamp! But I did try Linux years ago on my older PC- Knoppix.

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I have been using Linux for 4years , I’m still loving it no matter how difficult it is to use , because I’m a Laravel Software Developer and this Linux just works what I wanted to do on my projects with shell commands so it’s far better than windows lol